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Baby Items

5-Hour Baby Sweater
     Easy baby sweater, suitable even for beginning knitters. Also matching booties, bonnet, and hood.

Baby Set (Sacque and Cap)
     Quick-knit sacque and cap for size 6 months to 1 year.

Preemie Cap and Booties
     Easy cap and booties, suitable for hospital donations.

Remsen Knitted Baby Blanket
     Square baby blanket in an easy pattern.

Socks, Slippers and Footwear

Briggs and Little's Heavy Socks
 
Diagonal Decrease Sock Heel #1
     How to create a heel with a diagonal decrease line like those that are commercially-made. This link gives two methods that do not require purling.

Diagonal Decrease Sock Heel #2
     How to create a heel with a diagonal decrease line like those that are commercially-made. This method uses short rows.

Don'ts for Sock Knitters
     Suggestions taken from Red Cross WW I patterns. A few are dated, but most still hold true.

Hamer's Humdingers
     Heavy, fulled socks by Joan Hamer.

Joan's Socks for Kids
     Single Strand version for ages 2-4.

Magic Socks
     Three messages posted to the KnitList in 1996, describing how to knit a "sock within a sock" -- two socks knit simultaneously on double-pointed needles.

Red Cross Wartime Socks
 
Ribbers
     Easy socks with slip-stitch ribbing.

Sock Sizes and Measurements Chart
     Measurements for critical areas of socks, for shoe sizes from infant's to men's.

Toe Cover for Cast
 
Two-Strand WoolEase Socks
 
Why Knit Socks?
     How KnitListers answered that question!

World War I Socks
 

Mittens and Handwarmers

Boat Oar Mittens
     Quick-knit mittens using 3 strands of yarn and large (boat oar!) needles.

Quick Mitts
     Easy mittens knit with two strands of yarn.

Slip Stitch 2-Needle Mittens
 
Susan's Mitts
     Easy mittens to fit teenager or small adult.

Wristlets
     From Good Housekeeping's Forces' Knitting Book (WWII-era British leaflet)

Hats and Headgear

Balaclava Helmet
     From Good Housekeeping's Forces' Knitting Book (WWII-era British leaflet)

Double Cap
     Double thickness - double warmth.

Earwarmer (Machine Knit)
 
Footies or Old-Fashioned Slippers
 
Service Cap
     From Good Housekeeping's Forces' Knitting Book (WWII-era British leaflet)

Miscellaneous Items

Circular Scarf
     From Good Housekeeping's Forces' Knitting Book (WWII-era British leaflet)

Owl Potholder
     Quick knit potholder, heavy cotton yarn.

Dishcloth
     Basic knitted dishcloth, Sugar 'n Cream cotton yarn.


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